The Underground Creatures are characters from the 2020 Disney/Pixar animated short, Burrow.
Background[]
These animals mostly consist of animals that live underground. When a mole and a mouse gave Rabbit an opportunity to have her home design to be based on theirs, she felt embarrassed about this as she continuously digs underground to encounter other various creatures who have their own home. After Rabbit accidentally caused a flood, the other animals (and a badger) work together to help Rabbit escape and after escaping, they supported Rabbit in building her own home like what she drew on her sketch thanks to her teamwork which they were able to do, showing that they have a supportive personality of her.
Role in the short[]
As Rabbit plans to build her own home using her sketchbook, a mole approaches her and gives her a blueprint done by his own company, Mole & Mole, which another mole is busy building his own room while a mouse approaches Rabbit, giving her a blueprint of designing her home in mouse style. Rabbit feels too embarrassed to answer, which she digs underground and stumbles upon a hedgehog family. One hedgehog offers her to give her a baked treat which Rabbit decides not to. Rabbit then encounters another hole full of toads which the two toads are embarrassed of having a rabbit in their room. Rabbit then encounters a salamander bathing in his tub, just as she digs to find another room passing by more salamanders. Amongst he other animals she encounters are a group of beetles and ants partying together which Rabbit continues digging across various tunnels consisting of various other animals such as chipmunks, hedgehogs, a toad, a worm, salamanders, mice, and insects just before encountering a mysterious creature.
After accidentally causing the floodwater to rise, Rabbit calls in the badger to help her about the problem she caused by accident which the badger agrees to help just as he roars across the tunnels to help Rabbit just as they suddenly approach the badger to tell him what is going on. When Rabbit tells them about the problem, the other animals work together and plan to escape the rushing water and as the other animals escape, a salamander grabs Rabbit and gets her out to safety. Having escaped into the surface, the other animals celebrate that they have escaped. Rabbit shows them the sketch, telling them if they could build her home on her sketch with the other animals agree. The other animals work together in building Rabbit's home, which Rabbit feels satisfied of her home.
Trivia[]
- While the production team identifies the anurans in their book-themed room as "toads", the English Audio Description identifies them as "frogs" which the toads closely resemble, despite the name identified by the production team.
- The toy cat that one of the salamanders uses during the part where Rabbit digs frantically is actually a cameo of the kitten from Kitbull. Coincidentally, both Kitbull and Burrow are both animated in 2D animation.